9rules memberFlicker.com for Sale
May 3rd, 2007 | Categories: off topic, strategyRecently, the domain www.Flicker.com went up for sale. Obviously the site receives a lot of unqualified traffic from users trying to reach the misspelled photo-sharing site Flickr. The domain (with the proper spelling) claims it receives over 150,000 uniques per month via direct website visits. Let me iterate yet again that this traffic is unqualified and usually looking for the misspelled sibling.
In any case, someone is bound to buy the property sooner or later. Obviously Yahoo, who owns Flickr, would seem like an ideal candidate. The search engine giant would then redirect all the traffic to the appropriate photo-sharing property. But my guess is that this is exactly what the owners of Flicker.com want - they are looking to fleece Yahoo for as much money as possible.
The second possibility is that some sort of photo/camera/digital media presence is established on the property. That way, the unqualified traffic looking for Flickr may become qualified traffic and stay a second to further investigate. If an appropriate revenue model can be implemented, there may be a valid case for a purchase.
According to the site, six offers have been put forth already. They range from $10,000 to $90,000, in ascending order. All have been declined. Apparently, the seller is holding out for a price tag in the six-digits. But at what point will he/she decide to sell? $100,000? $200,000? $500,000? My guess is that the seller wants a juicy offer and won’t sell for any less. Bah… you gotta love capitalism.
May 3rd, 2007 at 6:51 pm
One hundred million dollars!
May 4th, 2007 at 5:32 am
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May 4th, 2007 at 7:33 am
I see absolutely nothing wrong with this - they had flicker.com before flickr existed. They can do whatever they want, including asking $500k.
May 4th, 2007 at 12:29 pm
“they had flicker.com before flickr existed”
NOT!
Check more closely. The owner now claims he rents office space to flickr. Check schillings blog at 7 mile. While the whois may show the reg predates the flickr reg the fact is that was the original registration date of the domain name which was NOT updated when the new owner sal sharid sheppard whatever his name is acquired the name. The truth is out there!
May 4th, 2007 at 1:13 pm
My comment came across wrong.
I know sal (actual name Sahar). He blogs here (and is a friend of Frank Schilling from 7mile): http://www.conceptualist.com/
Anyhoo - the point is that flicker.com existed before Flickr. The ownership is not the question here. Flickr created their website knowing all to well that flicker.com existed (ie Del.icio.us - it cost them $100k to buy delicious.com).
The owner of flicker.com can do whatever he wants - I’m sure with Yahoo moving towards using Flickr as their primary photo site, he will make a killing (perfectly timed eh!)
May 4th, 2007 at 3:15 pm
Sorry to dissapoint you but I don’t own the domain, never have.
March 13th, 2008 at 4:24 pm
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March 20th, 2008 at 3:22 pm
March 20TH 2008 Thursday
comment what would be the main reason for flicker.com to be taken off the mail web-site line.
if someone has something intrestian to keep as theres and refuse to share photos with others. Well it just have to rejected for the simple facts that every personal photos are not download for other people to know nor showed any information be sold are stolen. No showed allow themselves to be force to sell there photos for security nor saftey of someone she doesn’t like or get long with.
Sincerely,
Somone Wyatt
Monethreeone@yahoo.com
July 3rd, 2008 at 1:00 pm
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